Caffeine Derivatives
I recently made a bunch of caffeine by extraction (from those 'stay awake' pills you find at the drugstore) to use as a pesticide.
The pests are all dead now, and I'm left wondering what to do with the caffeine. Does anyone know of some interesting caffeine derivatives? Caffeine
salts? Other xanthines or purines maybe? Perhaps there are some interesting compounds to be made by cleaving the ring/rings?
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." -Albert Einstein
"There are few things -- whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought -- few things hidden from the man
who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery." -Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Roger Chillingworth")
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